I was surprised to not see PHPMyadmin in the Laragon package, I know it can be installed separately but will the makers of Laragon ever include it as part of the installation package? This would be fantastic as there is an ER Diagram builder which HeidiSql does not have.

Thank you so much and long continuation to Laragon! What a superb piece of kit compared to Xampp!

While the ibdata1 and ib_logfile0 were still there, something happened in between.

When you use Laragon and log to mysql at the same time via 2 pcs, there is a problem because mysql will lock the files for either 1 pc or the other.....and this is when these files start to conflict.

I did not really take notice to those and deleted the ones that had an earlier date than today...well this was my mistake. I thought because the files had the exact same size, the same data would have been in ...wrong!

I then used my sync.com retrieval area of each deleted files and took the ones that matched the exact time of my last work (last night). I deleted both the ibdata1 and ib_logfile0 and renamed ibdata1-CONFLICT-3 and ib_logfile0-CONFLICT-3 (and not conflict 4!!! because this was done today after the bug) to their original respective names(ibdata1 and ib_logfile0).

I also have the latest version, my mysql folder is synched on the cloud.

From the research I have done so far this is what I have found......

In the mysql folder, there is a file called "ibdata1" which seems to create the order of the tables and all the important stuff that creates individual tables. If this becomes corrupted(somehow...) then your tables won't show up....

What I am going to try to do now is this....

Stop mysql and laragon, delete the tables manually in that folder and recreate them based on my last migration..lets see if this works.